Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

Mar 11
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February is Black History Month, and each year I try to explore a subject that will give us some insight into racial justice as of particular times and places. This year, in the Sunday seminar, we have read a book called the 1619 Project, which describes the history of slavery in the United States starting on that date, and continuing through the abolitionist movement, emancipation and the events following emancipation up to the present. Today’s sermon is at once concerned with a narrower slice of time and a more abstract approach to the subject.

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